The Female Officer Became a Farmer After Getting Reborn

   Chapter 63 63 Escape from Famine

  The fleeing team walked to the town, and saw that all the shops in the town were closed. Along the way, they encountered several groups of people who were dragging their families to flee the desert. Everyone walked towards the front with a solemn expression.

  Li Yu sat next to Zhou Jia, watching the rice fields along the road all become bare, and the bare branches and trunks by the road were also full of locusts eating the bark.

  Li Yu thought that now is the time when the green and yellow are missing. Seeing that the harvest of one season has come to nothing, and the victims have no food, do you know that the imperial court will provide disaster relief?

   "Zhou Jia, at this time of year, the green and yellow are not connected, everyone's food is eaten by locusts, will the court send relief food?"

   "It's difficult, the current imperial court may have no money for disaster relief," Zhou Jia lowered his voice, "The imperial court has been building a palace a few years ago, and the Ministry of Household may not be able to provide the funds for disaster relief."

   "Then these victims have no food, what do they eat?" Li Yu looked at Zhou Jia and asked.

   "Will they care about this? They just need to keep the black gauze hat on their heads. You'll know when we get to Qingshan City. If I'm not wrong, the city gates are probably closed."

   At this time, the village chief shouted from behind, "Mr. Zhou, stop and rest for a while, the people walking behind will not be able to catch up."

   "Yu...," Zhou Jia stopped the mule cart, jumped out of the cart, and shouted to Jixiang in front of him, "Jiangxiang, stop for a while."

  The mule cart slowly stopped by the roadside, and the people behind followed. Liu Changyun's wife, Mrs. Ye, poked Liu Changyun and glanced at Liu Changmin's bullock cart, and Liu Changyun understood it.

  Liu Changyun walked over to Mrs. Liu who was sitting on the side of the road, pointed at the two children and looked at Mrs. Liu, "Mother, go talk to eldest brother, and take Baojin and Baoyin to the car to sit and rest for a while."

   Liu Baojin and Liu Baoyin also ran up, took Madam Liu's hand and complained, "Grandma, go to Uncle's place and tell him, let him give me the bullock cart to sit on!"

   Mrs. Liu watched her two grandsons walking away sweating profusely, and felt distressed, "I have suffered my dear grandson! Grandma will go and talk to your uncle."

  Li Mei looked coldly at Madam Liu walking towards Liu Changmin and warned Liu Changmin, "Your mother is here, if you promise her, you can do it yourself, don't think about humiliating our mother and daughter."

  Liu Changmin looked at Li Mei's mother and daughter, and said firmly: "Amei, don't worry, I won't be confused anymore."

   Mrs. Liu walked to the ox cart and reprimanded Zhao Di and Laidi with a cold face: "What are you two doing sitting in the car? If you still wink, don't hurry down and let Bao Jin and Bao Yin sit."

  Laidi looked at Mrs. Liu, "Why should we let them sit? This is my cousin's bullock cart."

   "You lose money, you dare to talk back." Mrs. Liu raised her hand and hit Laidi.

Liu Changmin grabbed Mrs. Liu's hand and looked at her coldly, without the respect in his eyes, "Mother, I will discipline my daughter myself, besides, this car is originally from Xiaoyu's house, Jinbao and the others have to return it by car. Only Xiaoyu agrees."

  Liu Changyun came over and smiled at Liu Changmin, "Brother, how can you talk to your mother like this?"

   Li Mei looked at the Liu family's mother and son coldly, and Liu Changmin looked at Liu Changyun, "I am a disobedient and unfilial son, it's enough for your mother to be filial."

   Zhao Di and Li Yu came over with biscuits and water bags. When Mrs. Liu saw Li Yu coming, she pulled Liu Changyun and her grandson around and ran away.

  Li Yu gave the water bag to Zhaodi, walked to the village chief and his car, and said to the village chief, "Village Chief, we have to walk a little faster. At this speed, I'm afraid we won't be able to reach Qingshan City at noon."

  Chen Yaohui looked at the sun in the sky and wiped his sweat, "Yeah! If you delay for two more days on the road, you will have to eat and drink more. Let's hurry up."

  Lishi looked at Chuanzhou and Chuan worried, "The children's feet hurt so much that they can't walk fast."

  Li Yu looked at the tanned faces of the two brothers and thought for a while, "Aunt Li, you take them to Ruyi's car in front of you, everyone will go in exchange."

  Li patted the two children happily, "Thank you little fish soon."

  After thanking Li Yu, the two children followed Li to Ruyi's. Just as Chen Baozhen was about to open her mouth, she saw the village chief looking at her with a dark face, and hurriedly closed her mouth and did not dare to say a word.

   The village chief shouted again, and the crowd began to move again.

   After walking for another hour, it was almost time to reach Qingshan City. We didn’t see any green plants along the way. There were locusts flying everywhere.

   After rushing for a while, the escape team finally arrived at Qingshan Castle before noon.

   Zhou Jia really guessed right, the gate of Qingshan City was closed, and the gate of the city was full of people who were going to enter the city.

Li Yu looked at the closed city gate and remembered those ancient costume dramas played on TV in the previous life. They played those corrupt officials. Once natural disasters happened, the city gates would be closed, regardless of the lives of the people. arrive.

   Zhou Jia pointed to the official road to the south and said loudly to Ruyi: "No need to enter the city, let's take a detour and take the official road from the south, and go to Qi County first."

   Ruyi responded loudly and drove the mule cart towards the official road to the south.

   Zhou Jia looked at Li Yu and pointed to the road ahead, "There used to be a forest in Qingshan City, we'll rest there for a while, we have to get to Chongyun Town today, and we can go over Yunjian Peak by leaving early tomorrow."

   When Li Yu heard Zhou Jia talk about Yunjianfeng, his tone was particularly heavy, and he looked at him puzzled, "Zhou Jia, is there any problem with Yunjianfeng?"

"The mountain road is on the left with a cliff on the left, and a deep stream on the right. The road is very narrow. Once it gets dark, the mountain road will be shrouded in clouds and mist, and it is impossible to see the road ahead. I'm afraid someone will fall down the mountain stream."

   "Oh! I see, the road is so narrow, if there is a convoy on the opposite side, can it be avoided?"

   "You don't have to worry about this. That road is divided into single and double passages. We pass on a single day here. If we can arrive at Chongyun Town tonight, we will just go up the mountain tomorrow."

   "Then I'll go and talk to the village chief, and let everyone hurry up or it will be delayed for a day."

Li Yu handed the reins to Zhou Jia, jumped out of the car, walked to the village chief's bullock cart and told the village chief about the road conditions, the village chief nodded repeatedly after hearing this, "You have to catch up, a day's delay will add another day's expenses. ."

   "Village Chief, Grandpa, make it clear to everyone, I'm going back to catch the car."

  The village chief told the road conditions behind to the people behind him, and shouted to everyone: "Everyone, hurry up, and take a rest after crossing the mountain tomorrow."

  The villagers were all sweating profusely, especially those children who followed behind their parents, the older one holding the smaller one with tears in their eyes, and those who stumbled did not dare to take a half step.

   Li Yu got back to the car, drove the car to speed up and arrived at the woods that Zhou Jia said after half an hour.

  I saw that the woods had become bare, and there was not even a single grass left on the ground.

   (end of this chapter)